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GNU Guix 1.1.0 was released just hours ago, so now is a good time to try it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22877788 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=
by ymse 6y ago
GNU Guix 1.1.0 was released just hours ago, so now is a good time to try it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22877788 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22877788 :-)
Rumor has it that Guix will be included in a future Debian release too. It is already available in Arch, Gentoo, and OpenSUSE.
- rudolph9 6y agoIt’s really great that functional package managers are getting all this attention! Nix package manager can run on Arch and Gentoo and OpenSUSE also.
- ymse 6y agoIt's one of the things you just can't do without once you become accustomed to it. I can not imagine going back to needing root privileges just to install or try a package, or being unable to roll back to earlier revisions. I hear Nix even works on macOS too! :-)
- mouldysammich 6y agonix doesn't have a package on OpenSUSE so you need to manually instlal, guix does have one though
- takeda 6y agoNix doesn't really come with packages to be installed, you can create one though. You install it by running this installation script: https://nixos.org/nix/install https://nixos.org/nix/install It should work on any Linux and OS X.
- slightwinder 6y agoHow does using nix on other distributions work? Can it access their local packagemanagers and install the distribution-packages, or is it a parallel world that just happens to live on the same machine?
- Shoue 6y agoIt's a parallel world. The other package managers are too imperative to deal with in a declarative manner and would just be painful, though there are attempts to do so (outside of Nix). Nix installs everything to /nix.